Lord Astor of Hever: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	How many shooting incidents involving United Kingdom military personnel the Royal Military Police are currently investigating in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan.

Lord Sainsbury of Turville: We hold many discussions with banks and other credit-providing institutions on a variety of issues in support of our goals of creating an open and competitive consumer credit market, while minimising over-indebtedness. This includes the Advisory Group on Over-indebtedness as detailed in Annex B of the Tackling Over-indebtedness Annual Report which was released on 16 August and is available at http://www.dti.gov.uk/files/file33134.pdf.

Lord Sainsbury of Turville: In 2003 the Medical Research Council, through the Military Health Research Advisory Group (MHRAG), undertook a comprehensive review of relevant Gulf research, including studies funded by the US authorities. It is not possible to give a cost of the review of the US studies in isolation but the cost of the review is estimated at between £20,000 to £25,000, the main expenses being MRC staff time, travel and hotel costs for non-MRC staff involved and administration.
	The review, which was published on the MRC website1, made a number of recommendations on where future research might focus and provided additional advice to the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
	MRC has made the information available on its website.
	1 The current url is www.mrc.ac.uk/index/public-interest/public-topical_issues/public-military_health/public-gulf_veterans.htm, however the MRC is currently re-launching its site and this address will change shortly.